Installing GIMPshop and fighting with Synaptic

[Eric Dunbar]

On 2/9/06, dan <hentaidan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/02/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > i.e. all Gimpshop appears to be (at least to me) is Gimp with a
> > different set of preferences... perhaps there are some other
> > differences?
>
> All I noticed was that "Dialogues" was renamed "Windows", but I didnt
> look too hard..
>
> > PS Does anyone know how to program the delete/backspace keys to
> > actually DELETE a selection?
> >
>
> I've tried many times, but to no avail!
>
> The only kinda relevant setting I can find is in the
> ~/.gimp-2.2/controllerrc file, I tried adding "delete" and "clear",
> but it didnt seem to work, though I suspect it is the wrong file
> anyway...
>
> Dan

I've partially figured it out :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) (as
Monty Python's "Always look on the bright side of life" is playing on
the radio :-)

The key is the menurc file!

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/vectors/vectors-selection-from-vectors" "<Shift>v")
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/edit/edit-clear" "BackSpace")

I suspect what allowed me to do it was the following:

I removed ctrl-k from Edit-Clear in the Preferences dialogue box by
(ironically ;-) pressing the BackSpace key. Then I quit GIMP. Then I
edited the menurc file and inserted BackSpace between the quotes.

You may need to try "<>BackSpace" instead of just "BackSpace". That's
what I was doing at first!!!

PS To modify a short-cut manually in the  menurc file you have to
remove the semi-colon (;) and the space preceding (gtk...

PS^2 I don't know if this is specific to the Mac OS X implementation
of X11/GIMP, but if you want Alt in your short-cuts, you prepend it
like so:
"<Alt>BackSpace" or "<Alt>a" (same for <Control> and <Shift>)

PS^3 This was done on Mac OS X with X11 so YMMV with Ubuntu.

PS^4 To any Mac OS X users out there... the reason GIMPSHOP changed
Gimp.app's short-cuts is that they use the same preferences directory.

Good luck and enjoy. I think I'll send off an e-mail to the coder of
GIMPSHOP because having a non-functional BackSpace key is one of the
dumbest things I've ever heard of (unfortunately, I didn't see how to
get forward delete to function... what would the shortcut be for
that?)

Eric.